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Debbie's Contributions =Purple font
JOE = BLUE
Joe,Dr. M says we should choose an audience that is not grade level specific and would allow us to reuse our lesson.
Possible Audiences:
Classroom teachers, other librarians, administrators, and middle school students
Audience:

Topic:
I'm familiar with Big 6. What about you?I'm not really familiar with it, so I'm open, Debbie.
Possible Presentation Tools:
Animoto, Photo Story, Voice Thread, Prezi, ??
Readings & Websites

Big6:

Eisenberg et al.pdf
ICT Literacy Standards.pdf
Needham.pdf
Primary Differentiation.pdf
Overview on "information age inquiry" website
And, something from the ALA site (mentioned at the end of the overview)
Big6 website

Building Blocks of Research:

Overview on "information age inquiry" website
Everything explained on this website

I-Search:

Reading Online article: Good bibliography, which I'll check out. Checked it out, found a good article below. The author has also written a couple of books which you might find interesting, since you are a MS person. (I included these, too.)

I-Search Zorfass.pdf

Zorfass, J. (1996). Make it happen! Inquiry and technology in the middle school curriculum (rev. ed.). Newton, MA: Education Development Center.

Zorfass, J. (2001). Sustaining a curriculum innovation: Cases to make it happen! In J. Woodward & L. Cuban (Eds.), Technology, curriculum and professional development: Adapting schools to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Thousand Oaks, CA. Corwin.

Zorfass, J., & Copel, H. (1998). Teaching middle school students to be active researchers. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Excerpts available: www.ascd.org/readingroom/books/zorfass98toc.html

Zorfass, J., Morocco, C.C., & Lory, N. (1991). Make it happen! A school-based approach to integrating technology into the middle school curriculum. In: F. Betts & V. Hancock (Eds.), Curriculum handbook. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Independent Investigation Method (IIM):

Their website
IIM Ungar.pdf

Information Seeking Process:

Info Seeking Process Canada.pdf
Info Seeking Process Worldwide.pdf
Kuhlthau Students and Info Search.doc
kuhlthau Digital Libraries.doc
Kuhlthau Information Search Process.doc
Here's the website where I got the "Information Search Process" article
and
The "information age inquiry" overview

Pathways to Knowledge:

Their website
Overview on "information age inquiry" website

REACTS

The now obligatory overview...
Stripling Inquiry.pdf
Stripling REACTS.pdf

The Research Cycle:

Just what you've been expecting...the Overview

Savvy 7

An overview from a different website...believe it or not!!! (I couldn't find any articles on this...)--had trouble finding anything on this...

Thoughtful Learning Cycle (TLC):

Couldn't find anything on this...